Case study

Heroes of Jin Yong: reimplementing the DOS game

This reimplements the DOS game 金庸群侠传 (The Legend of Jin Yong Heroes). The program is hojy.exe. With -DBUILD_TOOLS=ON, makedata takes the original game directory, a target directory, and a font file, then writes data, config.toml, and the merged map pictures. SDL2 is zlib-licensed. libADLMIDI and zita-resampler are GPLv3. soxr is LGPLv2.1.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 29
Last commit: 2026-10-21
Language: C++
License (GitHub): GPL-3.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code, documentation and a download method observed; no demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

CMake and GCC 8 or newer, Clang 7 or newer, or MSVC 2019 or newer. Clone with --recurse-submodules.
License: GPLv3.

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BibTeX

@misc{heroes-of-jinyong,
  title = {{Heroes of Jin Yong: reimplementing the DOS game}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/soarqin/HeroesOfJinYong}},
  url = {https://github.com/soarqin/HeroesOfJinYong},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/heroes-of-jinyong/}}
}

Plain text

Heroes of Jin Yong: reimplementing the DOS game. https://github.com/soarqin/HeroesOfJinYong (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/heroes-of-jinyong/

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README.md GitHub · soarqin/HeroesOfJinYong · Revision 6ace86b